OVERVIEW
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Here, we get some basic information about the dataset, such as the data types, some rows, etc.
Data structure
'data.frame': 16598 obs. of 11 variables:
$ Rank : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
$ Name : chr "Wii Sports" "Super Mario Bros." "Mario Kart Wii" "Wii Sports Resort" ...
$ Platform : Factor w/ 31 levels "2600","3DO","3DS",..: 26 12 26 26 6 6 5 26 26 12 ...
$ Year : num 2006 1985 2008 2009 1996 ...
$ Genre : Factor w/ 12 levels "Action","Adventure",..: 11 5 7 11 8 6 5 4 5 9 ...
$ Publisher : Factor w/ 579 levels "10TACLE Studios",..: 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 ...
$ NA_Sales : num 41.5 29.1 15.8 15.8 11.3 ...
$ EU_Sales : num 29.02 3.58 12.88 11.01 8.89 ...
$ JP_Sales : num 3.77 6.81 3.79 3.28 10.22 ...
$ Other_Sales : num 8.46 0.77 3.31 2.96 1 0.58 2.9 2.85 2.26 0.47 ...
$ Global_Sales: num 82.7 40.2 35.8 33 31.4 ...First 5 rows
| Rank | Name | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | NA_Sales | EU_Sales | JP_Sales | Other_Sales | Global_Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wii Sports … | Wii | 2006 | Sports | Nintendo | 41.49 | 29.02 | 3.77 | 8.46 | 82.74 |
| 2 | Super Mario Bros. … | NES | 1985 | Platform | Nintendo | 29.08 | 3.58 | 6.81 | 0.77 | 40.24 |
| 3 | Mario Kart Wii … | Wii | 2008 | Racing | Nintendo | 15.85 | 12.88 | 3.79 | 3.31 | 35.82 |
| 4 | Wii Sports Resort … | Wii | 2009 | Sports | Nintendo | 15.75 | 11.01 | 3.28 | 2.96 | 33.00 |
| 5 | Pokemon Red/Pokemon … | GB | 1996 | Role-Playing | Nintendo | 11.27 | 8.89 | 10.22 | 1.00 | 31.37 |
Last 5 rows
| Rank | Name | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | NA_Sales | EU_Sales | JP_Sales | Other_Sales | Global_Sales | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16594 | 16596 | Woody Woodpecker … | GBA | 2002 | Platform | Kemco | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 |
| 16595 | 16597 | Men in Black II: … | GC | 2003 | Shooter | Infogrames | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 |
| 16596 | 16598 | SCORE Internation … | PS2 | 2008 | Racing | Activision | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 |
| 16597 | 16599 | Know How 2 … | DS | 2010 | Puzzle | 7G//AMES | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 |
| 16598 | 16600 | Spirits & Spells … | GBA | 2003 | Platform | Wanadoo | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 |
Column
Summary
Rank Name Platform Year
Min. : 1 Length:16598 DS :2163 Min. :1980
1st Qu.: 4151 Class :character PS2 :2161 1st Qu.:2003
Median : 8300 Mode :character PS3 :1329 Median :2007
Mean : 8301 Wii :1325 Mean :2006
3rd Qu.:12450 X360 :1265 3rd Qu.:2010
Max. :16600 PSP :1213 Max. :2020
(Other):7142 NA's :271
Genre Publisher NA_Sales
Action :3316 Electronic Arts : 1351 Min. : 0.0000
Sports :2346 Activision : 975 1st Qu.: 0.0000
Misc :1739 Namco Bandai Games : 932 Median : 0.0800
Role-Playing:1488 Ubisoft : 921 Mean : 0.2647
Shooter :1310 Konami Digital Entertainment: 832 3rd Qu.: 0.2400
Adventure :1286 THQ : 715 Max. :41.4900
(Other) :5113 (Other) :10872
EU_Sales JP_Sales Other_Sales Global_Sales
Min. : 0.0000 Min. : 0.00000 Min. : 0.00000 Min. : 0.0100
1st Qu.: 0.0000 1st Qu.: 0.00000 1st Qu.: 0.00000 1st Qu.: 0.0600
Median : 0.0200 Median : 0.00000 Median : 0.01000 Median : 0.1700
Mean : 0.1467 Mean : 0.07778 Mean : 0.04806 Mean : 0.5374
3rd Qu.: 0.1100 3rd Qu.: 0.04000 3rd Qu.: 0.04000 3rd Qu.: 0.4700
Max. :29.0200 Max. :10.22000 Max. :10.57000 Max. :82.7400
EDA
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Sales by year
Sales by publisher
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Sales by Genre
A different approach for Sales by Genre
GOING DEEPER
Let’s see the overall sales by country. Notice that the sales for EU and NA are almost equal regarding the genre. Japan use to sale more RPG games than Action, which is common in other regions
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North America Sales by Genre
Europe Sales by Genre
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Japan Sales by Genre
Other Sales by Genre
